The MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy has announced the four global grand prize winners for the 2018 MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge (IIC). The winning organizations were selected by the IIC Champion Committee from 20 Regional Winners in Latin America, Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. All were vetted after a year-long search for the most innovative, … Continue reading MIT Awards $1 Million To Most Innovative Future Of Work Organizations In The World – Devin Cook
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George Gilder- Life After Google Blockstack Berlin 2018
https://youtu.be/ZWKWbHmWAcY George Franklin Gilder is an American investor, writer, economist, techno-utopian advocate, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute. His 1981 international bestseller Wealth and Poverty advanced a practical and moral case for supply-side economics and capitalism during the early months of the Reagan administration and made him Ronald Reagan's most quoted living author.[2] Married to … Continue reading George Gilder- Life After Google Blockstack Berlin 2018
This Company Could Be Your Next Teacher: Coursera Plots A Massive Future For Online Education – Susan Adams
Sitting in a fluorescently lit conference room dressed in a pressed gray work shirt, jeans and gray suede sneakers, Jeff Maggioncalda, the tightly wound 49-year-old CEO of Coursera, doesn’t touch his plate of plain spaghetti, edamame and artichoke hearts from the company cafeteria. By the end of our hour-and-a-half lunch meeting, he is still talking … Continue reading This Company Could Be Your Next Teacher: Coursera Plots A Massive Future For Online Education – Susan Adams
Google is Not Just An Answer Machine It Monitors Your Responses Too – Ed Finn & Andrew Maynard
In 1998, Google began humbly, formally incorporated in a Menlo Park garage, providing search results from a server housed in Lego bricks. It had a straightforward goal: make the poorly indexed World Wide Web accessible to humans. Its success was based on an algorithm that analyzed the linking structure of the internet itself to evaluate … Continue reading Google is Not Just An Answer Machine It Monitors Your Responses Too – Ed Finn & Andrew Maynard
Google Says The Best Managers Have These 10 Qualities – Zack Friedman
It's called Project Oxygen. Beginning in 2008, Google researchers wanted to understand what makes a manager great at Google. Here's what they found.Project Oxygen...Google sought to identify the common threads among Google's highest performing managers. Based on internal research, Google then applied its findings to its manager development programs.... Read more : https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2018/08/30/best-managers-google/#2e67c5054f26 … Continue reading Google Says The Best Managers Have These 10 Qualities – Zack Friedman
Google Sheets Tips and Tricks for Teachers and Educators via Educators’ tech | iGeneration – 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation)
Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education Source: Google Sheets Tips and Tricks for Teachers and Educators via Educators' tech | iGeneration - 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation) Your kindly Donations would be so effective in … Continue reading Google Sheets Tips and Tricks for Teachers and Educators via Educators’ tech | iGeneration – 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation)
The World’s Most Valuable Resource Is No Longer Oil, But Data – The Economist
A NEW commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting antitrust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow. A century ago, the resource in question was oil. Now similar concerns are being raised by the giants that deal in data, the oil of the digital era. These titans—Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Amazon, … Continue reading The World’s Most Valuable Resource Is No Longer Oil, But Data – The Economist
Google Has Made it Official: The Internet Is Now Mobile-First – Ashley Rodriguez
This may go down in history as the week the mobile web became the web. On Monday, Google began indexing and ranking pages on its search engine based on the mobile versions of websites rather than the desktop ones, the company announced. The change may seem minor, but it underscores how Google views and presents … Continue reading Google Has Made it Official: The Internet Is Now Mobile-First – Ashley Rodriguez
How to Become and Remain a Transformational Teacher – David Cutler
However talented, no one is a natural-born teacher. Honing the craft takes significant care and effort, not just by the individual, but also by the school at large. Though experience does matter, it matters only to the extent that a teacher -- regardless of how long he or she has been in the classroom -- … Continue reading How to Become and Remain a Transformational Teacher – David Cutler
Google Strives for Transparency with Rebooted Ad Settings – Genevieve Dietz
Google is giving us more control over data and ad targeting by launching a revamped version of Ad Settings. These new and improved controls allow us to curate our ad experiences by picking and choosing (and removing) which topics we want to see ads around. Ad Settings was originally launched in 2009 as a single … Continue reading Google Strives for Transparency with Rebooted Ad Settings – Genevieve Dietz